Unsecured education: a solution for a more egalitarian society?Education: avoid gender -related clichés

Little Yaël has only one year, however, his parents are convinced, the choices they put for him today are important.So they followed their convictions: Sarah and Julien chose to practice an unrealed education: "it goes through little things on a daily basis" explains her mother."For example, don't limit yourself to the choice of clothes, open in the girls department, with pink clothes, or with small stars for example. In the choice of books too, we try not to systematically take the book where theTrame is a princess who will be saved by a man "."In the way of speaking to him too, if he has ever fallen and he has hit, - it often happens for the moment - we are not going to tell him, you are a boy, you are a hard, force. On the contrary, we will make him understand that it is normal to be in pain, to be afraid, to cry, to worry "continues his dad.

Gender categories are in fact not harmful by nature.They are useful to give everyone, especially children, benchmarks in society.The problem is indeed the stereotypes that result from it.Hélène Detroz, coordinator in the middle of a reception, ASBL Le Ballon Rouge: "Indeed, we are born girl or boy, but that is not to say that we must put the children in boxes. We all received an education inwhich there were stereotypes. It is really aware of these stereotypes to try to give children luck, the opportunity to find themselves what they are fundamentally them, it is really trying to give themchances of having everything in hand and then choosing their path to them ".

And what should seem logical in 2021 is not yet.The media aimed at children, in particular, help to convey stereotypes from another time.Isabelle Roskam, professor at UCL in development and parenting psychology: "We are in a society which, a priori, goes towards greater gender equality, and in particular in terms of family, with a division ofTasks that wants to be less gendered. But sometimes, when we look at the media that addresses children, it looks a little retrograde. Just look at small books that are told to children like T'choupi, it's very stereotypical: the dad starts at work, and the mother stays at home. It is she who will lead to school, it is she who makes food ".

Marketing, another head of a cliché vision of the company

Another responsible for this divided vision of the company: marketing.In the 1970s, only 2% of games were gendered on the shelves.Toy sellers simply imagined games for girls and boys in order to sell them twice as much.Today, some brands allow themselves to offer toys for all again.Marie Lambert, manager of a toy store: "Here, the cooks are blue, they put a little boy on the box. This is something we love with us in the store, to show that theCuisine, it's girl and boy. It takes more time at this level to step back and say to ourselves, we will still make the effort to go in another direction and we will finally test and see ifIt works. And in fact, we in any case, as a trade, we realize that it works just as well ".